How to Install Latest LXQt Desktop in Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 and Fedora 22-24

LXQt developed from popular components of LXDE and Razor Qt project, LXQt is a free, open source, lightweight and fast desktop environment for Linux and BSD distributions. It comes with a number of great and well known features, which borrowed from LXDE desktop such as low system resource utilization, elegant and clean user interfaces. Additionally, one of its distinguished properties is the high level of customization to meet desktop usability needs.

Note: LXDE has been the the default desktop environment on Knoppiz, Lubuntu and a few other less known Linux distributions, however, LXQt is now the latest version of LXDE desktop and it is expected to ship by default on the above mentioned distributions.

LXQt Desktop Features

Below are a few of its significant components and additional features:

pcmanfm-qt file manager, a Qt port for PCManFM and libfm

lxterminal, a terminal emulator

lxsession session manager

lxqt-runner, a quick application launcher

Ships in with an integrated energy-saving component

Supports several international languages

Supports several keyboard shortcuts together with many other minor features

The latest version of this relatively new desktop environment is LXQt 0.10, which has come with more than 400 bug fixes and a number of improvements as listed below:

Solid replaces liblxqt-mount

Custom power management code

libscreen also replaces system xranr call and many more

How To Install LXQt Desktop on Ubuntu

Installing LXQt Desktop on Ubuntu 16.04/16.10 is as easy as executing the below command on terminal:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lxqt

After the installation is complete, you can logout of your current session or restart the system. Then choose LXQt desktop at the login interface as shown in the image below:

Select LXQt Desktop at Ubuntu Login

Running LXQt Desktop in Ubuntu 16.04

Install LXQt Desktop in Fedora 22-24

Since Fedora 22 onwards, LXQt packages are included in default Fedora repositories and can be installed using yum or dnf as shown.

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